Chase Jones’ baseball career may have come to an end, but his BaseBald career is just getting started.

After the North Carolina baseball team’s 2 p.m. game against Georgia Tech on Saturday, Boshamer Stadium will be home to the third annual BaseBald event raising money in support of childhood cancer research.

Jones — a former UNC bullpen catcher and cancer survivor — has run the event the past two years, and though he graduated in May 2011, he plans to run it for many more years to come.

“After doing it for a couple of years, I wanted BaseBald to continue even though I was graduating,” Jones said. “And so I pitched the idea to St. Baldrick’s”

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a charity devoted to fighting childhood cancer, hired Jones in September, giving him an avenue to continue running BaseBald.

Not only has it continued, but it has spread to other schools throughout the country. This year alone, BaseBald raised more than $217,000 in support of cancer research.